Dining
BY SAM PONTIUS
Chicken Cappuccino ($13.99) features chicken sauteed with mushrooms and peppers in a cream sauce.
Meat lovers pizza ($19.99) features pepperoni, Canadian bacon, hamburger and sausage.
PHOTOS BY DUSTIN BUTLER COMMUNITY IMPACT
Sicily’s Pizza & Pasta curates family-style kitchen A strong sense of family and a desire for a ord- able dinner options inspired the Saliovski family to open Sicily’s Pizza & Pasta. Artan Saliovski said his parents have been restaurateurs for over 30 years and opened Sicily’s in McKinney in April 1992. “We’ve been in the restaurant business since I was 4 years old,” Saliovski said. The backstory What’s special about it? Saliovski said all of their bread and pizza dough is handmade fresh every morning. “All of our sauces are homemade; they’re all secret recipes,” he said.
Owner Artan Saliovski said his family has been in the restaurant industry since he was 4 years old.
Sicily’s cheese is another staple, Saliovski said. Relatives of the Saliovski family own restaurants across North Texas, and they all get their blocks of cheese from the same supplier. “We use about a quarter of a million pounds of mozzarella cheese a year,” he said. Quote of note “The restaurant has a family environment,” Saliovski said. “I’m pretty much on a rst-name basis with 80% of my customers.”
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Saliovski said his parents are originally from Albania but met in New York in the 1970s after moving to the United States. The family opened Sicily’s Pizza & Pasta in 1992. “We had a vision of a ordable food, which is why we still haven’t changed our prices,” he said.
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